Azure Data Engineer – Banking – Dubai, UAE
Industry: Staffing and Recruiting | Function: IT-Software Development
Location: Dubai, UAE
Salary: 22000‑32000 monthly (Market estimated)
Job Type: Full‑time | Gender: Any | Nationality: Any | Preferred Location: Any
Position Overview
The Azure Data Engineer will build enterprise‑grade data platforms for banking clients in Dubai, designing medallion architecture, robust ETL pipelines, and analytics‑ready datasets using Azure services and Databricks.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement medallion architecture with bronze, silver, and gold layers
- Develop secure, scalable ETL and ELT pipelines using Python and SQL
- Engineer data ingestion from core banking and third‑party sources with quality checks
- Build Delta Lake tables, optimize performance, and manage cost on Azure
- Define data models, star schemas, and marts for BI and AI workloads
- Perform data mapping, profiling, lineage, and reconciliation across systems
- Implement CI‑CD for notebooks and jobs; automate testing and deployments
- Enforce data governance, cataloging, and privacy controls aligned to standards
- Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot failures, and tune jobs for reliability and SLAs
- Deliver documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer to operations
Candidate Requirements
- 10+ years in data engineering with hands‑on ETL pipeline delivery
- 10+ years working with banking data and domain processes
- Strong data mapping and data profiling expertise
- Advanced Python and SQL for data processing and validation
- Proven delivery of end‑to‑end data warehouse or data platform projects
- Certification in Azure data lake or data warehouse technologies
- Proficiency in one or more of Java or Scala is a plus
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure services for storage, compute, security
- Hands‑on with Databricks for big data processing, ML, and advanced analytics
- Deep knowledge of data modeling, database design, and warehousing concepts
- Familiarity with data integration tools and streaming or batch ingestion
- Knowledge of data governance and data quality best practices
What We Offer
- Enterprise‑scale Azure and Databricks projects in the banking sector
- Competitive package, certification support, and clear growth path
- Collaborative, delivery‑focused culture with regional client exposure
About the Company
DicetekLLC is a GCC‑based technology consulting and staffing partner delivering project‑based and managed services for leading enterprises, with strong capability in data engineering, cloud, and digital transformation.